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    The story is an allegory about a selfish giant who does not allow children to play in his beautiful garden. As a result, winter lasts all year long in the garden while spring is everywhere else. Eventually, the giant allows the children to play in his garden and it is filled with blossoms. Among the children is Jesus Christ, who helps the giant become loving. When the giant dies, Jesus takes him to paradise. The story promotes themes of selfishness, friendship, and sharing property with the community.

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    The story is an allegory about a selfish giant who does not allow children to play in his beautiful garden. As a result, winter lasts all year long in the garden while spring is everywhere else. Eventually, the giant allows the children to play in his garden and it is filled with blossoms. Among the children is Jesus Christ, who helps the giant become loving. When the giant dies, Jesus takes him to paradise. The story promotes themes of selfishness, friendship, and sharing property with the community.

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    The story is an allegory about a selfish giant who does not allow children to play in his beautiful garden. As a result, winter lasts all year long in the garden while spring is everywhere else. Eventually, the giant allows the children to play in his garden and it is filled with blossoms. Among the children is Jesus Christ, who helps the giant become loving. When the giant dies, Jesus takes him to paradise. The story promotes themes of selfishness, friendship, and sharing property with the community.

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    The Selfish Giant PDF

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    The story is an allegory about a selfish giant who does not allow children to play in his beautiful garden. As a result, winter lasts all year long in the garden while spring is everywhere else. Eventually, the giant allows the children to play in his garden and it is filled with blossoms. Among the children is Jesus Christ, who helps the giant become loving. When the giant dies, Jesus takes him to paradise. The story promotes themes of selfishness, friendship, and sharing property with the community.

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    The story explores themes of selfishness, friendship, and how isolating oneself can lead to loneliness. It also shows how kindness and sharing can bring joy.

    The giant initially builds a wall around his garden to prevent children from entering and playing there.

    The spring returns to the giant's garden when the children manage to enter it despite the wall.

    THE SELFISH GIANT

    ABOUT THE STORY


     ‘The Selfish Giant’ is an
    allegory, a story with an inner
    moral meaning, in which a
    selfish giant does not allow the
    children to play in his garden.
    This results in the garden
    getting winter all through the
    year, when all around it there is
    spring. There is personification
    of natural elements like snow,
    frost hail and the seasons and
    the technique of personification
    is used throughout the story. It
    also has the elements of
    fantasy and fairy tale.
    THE PROLONGED WINTER AND RETURN OF THE
    SPRING
     The Giant builds a wall
    around his beautiful
    garden to prevent
    children from entering
    the garden. The children,
    however, manage to
    enter the garden. The
    spring returns to the
    garden. At last the giant
    allows the children to
    play in his garden and it
    becomes covered with
    beautiful blossoms.
    THE SELFISH GIANT BECOMES THE LOVING GIANT
    THE LITTLE BOY – THE CHRIST
     Among the children is a small boy
    whom the Giant helps and loves. He
    is Jesus Christ. The blood on his
    hands and feet was from where he
    was nailed to the cross. He loved
    people so much that he died for
    everyone. He takes the giant to
    Paradise after his death. The Giant
    blessed the little boy and other
    children by letting them play in his
    garden. God in turn blessed him by
    allowing the Giant into His Paradise.
     The ending of the short story is very
    religious as Wilde uses the presence
    of Jesus to help end the story and
    assist the moral. The giant who had
    sinned had been sent to heaven,
    purely because he had realised that
    he was selfish and that he was going
    to be lonely unless he was more kind.
    THEMES OF THE STORY
     Selfishness: Selfishness is the
    main theme with a variety of sub
    themes. People who are selfish
    do not want to share their things
    with others. They want to keep
    everything for themselves. But
    when they do that, they quickly
    find themselves all alone.
     Friendship: Another theme in the
    story is the importance of
    friendship in human life.
     The story can also be read in the
    light of theories of Marxism
    according to which it is unjust for
    one person to own property for
    personal use. It should ideally be
    shared by the community.

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